General manager Jason Licht today at the NFL Scouting Combine.

General manager Jason Licht is making the rounds at the NFL Scouting Combine and Joe is up close and personal. (more…)

Bucs left tackle Donovan Smith.

A longtime Donovan Smith defender has thrown his hands in the air and yelled, ‘No mas!’ (more…)

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The offseason is officially here, so tune in JoeBucsFan.com draft guru Sean Sullivan. Enjoy his quick but powerful draft study — always with his beloved Buccaneers in the back of his mind.

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Opens ballot.

Yes, iconic Bucs cornerback Rondé Barber is now a Hall of Famer, named Thursday night as one of the five of 15 finalists to earn a hallowed seat in the Class of 2023. But not everyone was in Barber’s corner. (more…)

Kyle Trask

Bucco Bruce Arians emerged from dark cloud (ray of light?) surrounding the firing of failed playcaller Byron Leftwich. (more…)

Running back Rachaad White.

Some players might say a losing season is miserable no matter what happened. (more…)

Intriguing report from NFL Network host, personality and FOX reporter Peter Schrager, a friend of Joe who is tight with folks in the Buccaneers’ front office. (more…)

GM Jason Licht

Joe apologizes to the fans who read the headline and got excited that this post would be about cutting Donovan Smith or trading Devin White. (more…)

Rondé Barber

Bucs icon Rondé Barber doesn’t hide his belief that he’s 100 percent worthy of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. (more…)

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It’s bound to happen one of these years, isn’t it? (more…)

The Bromosa is flowing early at JoeBucsFan.com world headquarters. (more…)

Gronk talks Tom Brady and the Bucs.

So where will Tom Brady go? (more…)

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ESPN’s Troy Aikman.

Hall of Fame quarterback and broadcaster Troy Aikman called Monday’s Dallas beatdown of Tampa Bay for ESPN. And, of course, before the game he sat down with Tom Brady and chatted will all kinds of Bucs types. (more…)

Joe salutes Byron Leftwich’s four years of Buccaneers service, though the 2022 season deserves a middle-finger salute. (more…)

Byron Leftwich

The door was flung wide open for head coach Todd Bowles at his year-ender news conference this afternoon. (more…)

Will Gholston

Joe talked to a couple of guys who have gone through a combined 21 seasons of Buccaneers wars about the totality of this season: Lavonte David and Will Gholston. (more…)

The famous father-son Simms quarterback duo was split when it came to predicting the Bucs-Panthers game, when Tampa Bay opened up its offense and came back to wipe out the miserable Panthers. (more…)

Tough talk on the Bucs’ opening pick in the 2022 NFL Draft.

Rookie defensive tackle Logan Hall, the No. 33 overall pick in the draft, didn’t look good against the run on Sunday when the Buccaneers emptied their bench against a Falcons team giving its all. (more…)

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Let the real season begin. The warmup season was a stinker.

A week after clinching a third consecutive playoff berth, the Bucs forgot to show up in the second half Sunday during a 30-17 setback at Atlanta. Tom Brady looked sharp in a tuneup stint and the best news is he’s healthy going into next week’s postseason opener against Dallas.

There wasn’t much else to celebrate as Brady closed out the first losing season of his incomparable career. He hit on 13-of-17 throws, highlighted by a TD pass to a ghost named Kyle Rudolph.

Buc Nation can’t wait to close the book on these 17 games. Not only did the Bucs stumble to an 8-9 finish, but Tampa Bay’s scoring differential (minus-45) is the worst in the league’s worst division.

Gulp. (more…)

GM Jason Licht

Even with the playoffs here, some Bucs fans can’t shake their obsession with the NFL Draft.

For them, Joe has soothing words. Since Jacksonville finished 9-8 yesterday and the Bucs concluded their season with a 8-9 record today, the Bucs would score the No. 19 overall pick in the draft if they were to lose their opening playoff game next weekend against Dallas.

Now go beat the Cowboys, Bucs, and shut down the draft chatter!

If the Bucs win next weekend, then their first-round pick would be later than all teams eliminated in the wild card round.